Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies . Ovington reported asfollows :— I shall carry Tabloid First-Aid Outfit with me on my trans-conti-nental flight—the two smaller outfits on my aeroplane and the larger oneon my special train. I have looked these outfits over very carefully andwish to compliment you upon the wonderful compactness and efficiency ofyour products. I feel decidedly more comfortable because I know I haveyour little outfits along with me to administer to my aid when the necessity 30 THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHT their epoch
Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies . Ovington reported asfollows :— I shall carry Tabloid First-Aid Outfit with me on my trans-conti-nental flight—the two smaller outfits on my aeroplane and the larger oneon my special train. I have looked these outfits over very carefully andwish to compliment you upon the wonderful compactness and efficiency ofyour products. I feel decidedly more comfortable because I know I haveyour little outfits along with me to administer to my aid when the necessity 30 THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHT their epoch-making trials. They commenced with aChanute glider; this was soon to be modified andimproved. The tail was abandoned and an elevatorattached in front. So successful were their glidingflights from the sand-hills of their secluded trial groundat Kitty Hawk, that a motor was presently attached totheir machine. On December 17, 1903. the first actual flight witha petrol-driven motor was made. Two years later, atDayton, Ohio, Wilbur Wright- flew eleven, and uponanother occasion over twenty, The Wright Glider Flight by mechanical means was an accomplishedfact. Rumours of these exploits reached Europe, butthey were little regarded, save in France, that homeof ideas. There, another distinguished pioneer was at work,M. Santos-Dumont, who had already accomplished somuch in airship construction. In the autumn of 1906he electrified the world by a flight at Bagatelle on astrange-looking aeroplane of his own design. The Bird of Prey, as it was called, appeared like a seriesof box-kites strung together, with double-decker planestilted up at a considerable angle. There was no tail,but in front a big elevator. * To the deep regret of everyone interested in aviation, this distinguishedinventor, one of the most active pioneers of flight, fell a victim to typhoidfever and died at his home in Dayton, May 31, 1912.
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